Business Intelligence project

By: Fatima Ezzahra AGUIRI, ABROUN Hadbae, KHATTABI Ali.

INTRODUCTION
Microsoft Power BI is a suite of software services, applications, and connectors that work
together to transform unrelated data sources into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive
insights. Whether your data is in a simple Microsoft Excel workbook or a collection of on-
premises and cloud-based hybrid data warehouses, Power BI allows you to easily interact
with the data sources, visualize (or discover) the important elements.

Power BI can be simple and quick. The tool is capable of generating quick insights from an
Excel workbook or a local database. But Power BI is also a robust, professional-grade tool. It
offers extensive features not only for real-time modeling and analysis but also for custom
development. Therefore, it can serve as a personal reporting and visualization tool, as well as
an analytical and decision-making engine for group projects, divisions, or even entire
companies.

Components of Power BI

Power BI consists of a Microsoft Windows desktop application called Power BI Desktop, an

Power BI adapting

Your use of Power BI depends on your role in a project or team. Other users with different
roles are likely to use Power BI differently, which is not a problem. For example, you might
view reports and dashboards in the Power BI service. You may not use Power BI for any other
action. But your colleague responsible for processing and creating business reports may
primarily use Power BI Desktop (and publish Power BI Desktop reports to the Power BI
service, which you then use to view them). It might view real-time inventory and
manufacturing progress in a dashboard and concurrently use Power BI Desktop to create
reports dedicated to your team on customer engagement statistics. Your use of Power BI may
depend on the functionality or service of Power BI that best suits your situation.

Workflow in Power BI

In Power BI, a typical workflow begins in Power BI Desktop, where a report is created. This
report is then published to the Power BI service and shared so that users of Power BI Mobile
apps can access the information.

While the workflow may sometimes vary slightly, this one is used to help discover the
different components of Power BI and how they complement each other.

Now that there's an overview of this module (the fundamentals of Power BI and the three
main elements), let's take a look at using Power BI.

Using Power BI

There's now basic knowledge of Microsoft Power BI. Let's move on to hands-on experiences
and a guided tour. The typical activity flow in Power BI looks like this:

1-Importing data into Power BI Desktop and creating a report.

2-Publishing to the Power BI service, where visualizations or dashboards can be created.

3-Sharing the dashboards with others, including those on the go.

Components of Power BI
Each task that can be performed in Microsoft Power BI can be broken down into a few basic
components. Once these building blocks are mastered, they can be expanded to create
complex and elaborate reports. After all, even seemingly complex things are generated from
basic building blocks. For example, buildings are constructed with wood, steel, concrete, and
glass, and cars are made from metal, fabric, and rubber. Of course, buildings and cars can be
more or less elaborate: it all depends on the organization of these basic elements.We will now
review these building blocks, use them to perform some simple tasks, and then glimpse the
creation of more complex patterns.
The basic building blocks in Power BI are as follows:
-Visualizations
-Datasets
-Reports
-Dashboards
-Tiles
Visualizations
A visualization (or visual element) is a visual representation of data, such as a chart, a color-
coded map, or other relevant images that can be created to visually represent data. Power BI
offers many types of visualizations, and new templates are added regularly. The following
illustration shows a set of different visualizations created in the Power BI service.
Datasets
A dataset is a collection of data used by Power BI to create visualizations. It can be as simple
as a single Microsoft Excel table or a combination of multiple sources that you can filter and
join to create a single collection of data. Filtering data before importing it into Power BI
allows you to focus on the data that interests you. Power BI's many data connectors make it
easy to collect, filter, and integrate data from various sources into your dataset.
Reports
In Power BI, a report is a collection of visualizations that appear together on one or more
pages. It is like any report you might create for a business presentation or school assignment.
Reports in Power BI can be created in Power BI Desktop or the Power BI service. Reports
allows to create multiple visualizations on different pages, organizing them in the most
suitable way for your situation. commercial growth of a product in a specific segment, or the
migration patterns of polar bears.
Dashboards
When you are ready to share a page of a report or a set of visualizations, you create a
dashboard. Similar to a car dashboard, a Power BI dashboard is a collection of visual elements
from a page that you share with other users. It is often a group of visual elements that you
have chosen to provide an overview of the data or information you are trying to present. A
dashboard should fit on a single page, often called a canvas (the canvas is the blank
background in Power BI Desktop or the Power BI service where you place the visualizations).
You can imagine it as an artist's or painter's canvas: a workspace where you create, associate,
and rework relevant and attractive visual elements.
Tiles
In Power BI, a tile is a single visualization in a report or dashboard. It is the rectangular area
that contains an individual visual element. In the following image, you can see a tile (framed
in a bright color), also surrounded by other tiles.

When you create a report or dashboard in Power BI, you can move or arrange the tiles as you
like. You can enlarge them, change their proportions (height and width), and place them closer
to other tiles. When you view or consult a dashboard or report (meaning you are not the
creator or owner, but the report or dashboard has been shared with you), you can interact with
it, but you cannot change the size or arrangement of the tiles.
Global View
We have just reviewed the fundamental principles of Power BI and its building blocks. Let's
recap.Power BI is a set of services, applications, and connectors that allow you to connect to
your data (no matter where it is), filter it if necessary, and then integrate it into Power BI to
create attractive visualizations for sharing with other users.Now that you have discovered the
basic components of Power BI, you can create datasets that are relevant to you and create
reports that tell your story visually. With Power BI, the story you tell doesn't need to be
complex or complicated; it needs to be effective.Some will greatly appreciate using a simple
Excel spreadsheet for their dataset and then sharing a dashboard with their team. For others,
the value of Power BI will lie in using real-time Azure SQL Data Warehouse tables, which,
combined with other real-time databases and sources, will allow them to generate a dataset at
any given moment.
In both cases, the process is the same: create datasets, generate meaningful visuals, and share
them with other users. Furthermore, the result is the same in both cases: harnessing a
constantly evolving world of data and transforming it into actionable insights. Whether the
datasets you use to generate insights are simple or complex, Power BI allows you to start
quickly and adapts to your needs to be as complex as your data world. Given that Power BI is
a Microsoft product, rest assured that it is a reliable, scalable tool compatible with Microsoft
Office and dedicated to the business world.